After me and Jugyeong lied down on the grass for a bit, I invited her over to joke around and stuff. My dad gets out of work at 8 and my mom is gonna leave soon. I never told my mom that Jugyeong and I started dating after she gave me that advice. It's just because her schedule is so weird. Sleeping in the morning and waking up at like 10 am is so childish-sounding for a 50 year old woman until you realize she gets out of work at 2 am.
We get to the apartment.
"Hey mom, getting ready for work?" I ask her walking in.
"Yeah. Oh hi Jugyeong." she says.
"Hi Mrs. Ferrari." Jugyeong says.
"Wait a second, y'all have never come in here together holding hands before." My mom says.
"Hyun and I are dating."
"HOW IN HELL..."
"That was dad's reaction Mom." I tell her.
"Did you expect anything else?"
"No, just shows how in sync you two are despite only being together 2 hours a day."
"No funny business alright?"
"What would we do in an hour that would cause anything funny?"
"She's saying don't get me pregnant." Jugyeong says.
"Wouldn't wanna ruin our lives now would we? Especially mine."
"Wouldn't my life be more ruined?"
"No, you'd be getting child support for me just to be able to visit my own kid if you broke up with me."
"Oh right nevermind, I would have it better. But I wouldn't dump you so we would both be equally screwed."
"Can y'all stop talking about whose life would be more ruined if you got her prego?!" my mom said.
"Not like we're gonna do it." I said.
"You might not, but it's still uncomforting for a mom to hear y'all talk about that."
"Isn't it more uncomforting to be a granny at 50?"
"Just play games or read manga like y'all normally do this is weird!"
"I came inside just to have a little fun. This was fun, making you uncomfortable Mrs. Ferrari." Jugyeong said.
"I've always liked and hated you Jugyeong you know that?"
"Always have."
"Bye son, bye Jugyeong." My mom said.
"Bye babe, bye Mrs. Ferrari." Jugyeong said.
"Bye mom, bye Jugyeong." I tell em.
Jugyeong and I kiss before she dips.
Meanwhile outside...
"Don't you think someone more attractive would be more your speed Jugyeong? Hyun? You like my depressed failure?"
"Mrs. Ferrari, I'm just as much of a failure as Hyun is. And Hyun may not be super handsome or whatever, but unlike most people, I don't give a crap. He's not even ugly anyway, take away the acne and like 20 pounds and he's a snack."
"You forcing him to workout? He hasn't worked out in years until Sunday."
"Nah that's his own choosing."
"And his mental offness?"
"I'm just as off as he is, and it's not like he has voices telling him to do stuff. He just talks to himself and has depression. We both take pills. I have to take two Adderall a day and Hyun takes a happy pill a day."
"You seriously love my son?"
"Why wouldn't I love him?"
"Why do you love him?"
"He's always been there for me these 5 years I've known him, and vice versa. He tolerates my crazy and I tolerate his. Why wouldn't I love him?"
"You be good to him girl. And if you break his heart..."
"That ain't happening. I don't plan on it."
"Good. Now come here."
Jugyeong and Hyun's mom hug and then they both drive off to their respective destinations.
(Back to Hyun)
{Hey it's been a couple hours since we've talked. While you wait for your dad to come home, why not work out for the passive missions?}
"I don't feel like it man. I don't feel too good."
{I'm gonna force you then. Prepare for a Main Mission.}
"If it's a work out mission, it stacks with the passive right?"
{Well no duh}
"Can I request a passive mission edit?"
{Depends on what it is}
"Can you just require me to work out an hour and 15 minutes instead of 3 different days of 20"
{Only if you let me increase the length}
"By how much?"
{2 hours a week}
"That's fine."
{Main Mission 8: HIIT. Do 20 minutes of HIIT today. Time Limit: 20 minutes after you start. Reward: +10 ATC +5 CSY +2 Skill Points. Punishment for Failure: You'll see}
"I DON'T GET TO KNOW WHAT MY PUNISHMENT IS?"
{Don't worry it's not gonna be bad}
"Are you sure?"
{It's not that serious of a mission, so the punishment can't be that serious.}
"Why can't this be a side mission then?"
{Because you wouldn't want to do it!}
"Fine. What's HIIT anyway?"
{High Intensity Interval Training.}
"AW THIS?" I complain while looking at it on my phone.
{High knees counts as both HIIT and knee strike training}
"Ooh okay, but what else?"
{Push-ups, Jacks, Squats, Burpees, Mountain Climbers, stuff you don't need equipment for that you can do a lot of in a short amount of time.}
"I see."
I start with high knees because that counts as HIIT and Dae Zhae Kuaun training.
{Feel the burn?}
"Not yet."
{You still have 19 minutes to go. Take your 5 second break. Go!}
I do push ups next. A fat dude doing push ups sounds weird, but in PE we do pain training. What why doesn't PE count?
{That's because this requires external exercise. And you mostly just walk around the field after the 3 minute warmup instead of playing soccer or whatever y'all do.}
It repeats with jacks, climbers and a few other exercises til the last minute.
{Time for the worst one}
"What?"
{Burpees.}
"Bruh."
{DO IT!}
"Okay ha, okay, fffff. Fine." I say tiredly.
{It's just a minute, COME ON!}
I do burpees for 30 more seconds.
{DON'T QUIT OR YOU FAIL!}
I finish the routine barely, completely dead.
"Skinny people do this all the time. HOW THE HELL ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO DO THIS 3 TIMES A WEEK?! I could barely. Handle. One. Ugh."
I got very dehydrated.
{You're sweating like the pig you are. Drink some water, then TAKE A SHOWER! Take your reward, too lazy for the nice robotic format.}
I take a shower then just straight melt in the couch.
I put it on Tooooobi so I can watch Storage Battles on demand with my dad. He's been streaming it for like 3 months. There's like 17 seasons of people just bidding on storage lockers in California. My cousin that got married lives in Santa Ana of all places with his wife.
Why leave Korea? No idea.
He got himself a Korean wife and dipped to America (my cousin that got married is Italian).
Apparently what he told us is, "I'm not gonna get hitched to a Mediterranean woman, every person that lives in a country that touches the sea has at least a 1% relation. Don't wanna date my cousin."
My man has a point.
From what I hear, Jugyeong isn't even Korean. I think she said she's Chinese but her grandparents changed everything to Korean to escape the commies. Don't remember, and I don't care.
{Ethnic mixing should be law IMO}
"Why?"
{All a race or an ethnicity is, is the product of hundreds, or even thousands of years of incest.}
"Honestly, that's a fair opinion."
{It's the correct opinion.}
"There's probably an African somewhere down the line in my lineage, I mean Sicily and Carthage were very. Uh. CLOSE to say the least. And my dad is from Sicily."
{All humans are related.}
"Yeah. Hence why I don't care. I just happened to fall in love with Jugyeong."
"I hope your children end up becoming parents all around the globe."
"Having grandkids that are Mr. or Ms. wideworld would be cool."
My dad comes in.
"The hell were you talking to yourself about?" My dad asks.
"Random stuff."
"Put on my show."
"What episode?"
"Season 15, Episode 1. I brought a pizza for each of us."
"Italian sub right?"
"Eh I espeake the English."
"I'm putting the Italian sub on, wasn't very convincing."
"Okay fine."
"Or wanna watch it in Korean?"
"Hell no! The Korean dub is TRASH. More than the Italian Dub of Shrimp Game!"
"It's that bad?"
"It's that bad."
"So how was work?"
"It was okay. That one girl I hired is your friend right?"
"Not really a friend per say, more like an associate."
"I see."
"How was school?"
"Jugyeong got kinda sad that she didn't get as much hate as she wanted."
"Is she a maso-"
"Nah, she says that "others acting stupider than her makes her feel smart.""
"One of those women ah. Want some wine?"
"Nah."
"Come on! It's legal in Italy as long I buy it!"
"Not here!"
"Ah you're 18 in Korean years!"
"17 in normal years."
"Okay whatever."
We watch the show, it is kind of funny.
At 11 pm I go to sleep after texting Jugyeong a bit.